Social Security bashers may have toned down their rhetoric, but they are still pushing a fundamental lie. Back in February, when Alan Simpson was reported to be President Obama’s choice to chair the new debt-reduction commission, Lori Montgomery of the Washington Post spoke to Simpson on the phone: “How did we get to a point [...]
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Bill Clinton’s Phantom Surpluses Still Haunt Social Security 2 comments
For the second time in a decade, official Washington is spreading a bogus story about Social Security and the Federal budget. In the earlier version, the Clinton administration claimed four years of budget surpluses by pretending that the money the government borrows from the Social Security Trust Fund doesn’t count toward the Federal debt. “We [...]
Tomorrow’s election, whatever the outcome, will do nothing to move us toward solving what is arguably the worst financial and economic mess this nation has ever experienced. Neither side has admitted the extent of the problem, nor suggested even reasonably sensible solutions. We are drowning in a horrible bi-partisan morass. The saddest thing is that [...]